Leading Off:
●NH-Sen: Granite State Democrats managed to pull off a win here even with so much else going wrong nationwide. On Wednesday afternoon, GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte conceded to Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan after certified results gave Hassan a 48.0-47.9 lead, which amounted to a 1,023-vote edge.
This was a fiercely contested race from beginning to end. Aside from Nevada, this is also the only competitive Senate race that Team Blue won on Tuesday. (Democrats picked up Illinois, but neither party spent much there.) Clinton carried New Hampshire 47.5-47.3, almost exactly matching Hassan's margin of victory. Hassan's win takes the GOP's majority down to 52-48 (assuming the GOP holds the Louisiana Senate seat in the December runoff as we expect they will).